WinFS Senario #1: adding music to movies

Dare responds

TrackBack — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 06:51:00 GMT

Dare responds

re: WinFS Senario #1: adding music to movies

Simon — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:52:00 GMT

Yes, it does sound good but I can already do this by selecting details view and letting explorer show me all of the meta-data stored *inside* my mp3 files. I presume it works with WMA to but I don't use that so can't check. This may only work in XP - but it already works.

WinFS as a Digital Media Store

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re: WinFS Senario #1: adding music to movies

Mario Goebbels — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:48:00 GMT

It works as long all your audio files are located in one folder, otherwise you'd have to browse all different folders until you find what you want. The WinFS view aggregates all music independently of the location of the files (aslong they're in any WinFS store on your disks). The WinXP file dialogs also don't allow you to filter and stack your files by whatever metadata attribute that's available (Author, Title, Gerne, Year, Rating, etc), you just get to put some wildcard masks on the filename.

Considering that I've files locally and on a seperate fileserver, WinFS is a nice addition, since it supposedly also allows you to link stores from remote machines. I find it handy to be able to get a list/view of all files, independently of their location, whether they're in stores on partitions C:, H:, R:, S: or Z:, or on a remote machine, all gets aggregated into one list/view that can be filtered in all possible ways.

re: WinFS Senario #1: adding music to movies

Iain — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:51:00 GMT

There are two problems here, though. There's the "how are we going to utilise metadata" problem, and theres the "what metadata are we going to create" problem. I would venture to suggest that the only reason we haven't solved the former (which is what WinFS is trying to solve) is that the only way that can be valuable is if we both solve the latter problem *and* decide that we want to make our metadata available to everyone.

Chris Sells

TrackBack — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 16:53:00 GMT

Chris Sells

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